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THE EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE OF THE 7th WARD, 

fes AND BUTLER CLUB, 

IN WASHINGTON CITY, 

Submit the following Extracts to the consideration of the people, and 
respectfully ask the candid of all parties to give them a careful perusal. 

The facts ;is stated in Col. Francis M. Wynkoop's Speech, endorsed 
by many of the brave volunteers who have returned from the Mexican War, 
fully substantiate the charge of "MORAL TREASON," as attributted 
to the Whig Party by President Polk in his messages to Congress, and 
reiterated from time to time by Democratic members in the Senate and 
House of Representatives, and Democratic papers throughout the country; 
the Committee earnestly desi:e every man into whose hands this pamphlet 
may fall, to read it carefully and then decide whether they will 
tied, in the approaching contest, with that party wiio (during <> 
with Mexico) took sides with the enemy against their Couuiry a 
them all the aid and comfort in their power, or whether lifee <-ol < ytvk , 
Capt. Davis and a host of others, (brave volunteers) they will be touuo in 
the ranks of those, who have from first to last been found manfully contend- 
ing for the rights and honor of their beloved Country,, 



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PENNSYLVANIA, 

3T/i€ MSepubUccsM Ertgicm of Old Mucks in the Wield I 

Democratic, Harvest Home in Doylcstown! — Unprecedented outpouring! 
CoL Francis M. W ynkoop renouncing ivhiggery, and giving in his 
adhesion to democracy. 

Under this head, the Philadelphia Times and Keystone gives a very 
animated description of the grand harvest-home rally of the democracy of 
Old Bucks, on the 5th inst. The enthusiasm for Cass and Bntler was ve- 
ry great. Flags floated with democratic inscriptions in all directions in the 
town of Doylestown. About 10 o'clock, the gallant Capt. VV. W. H. Davis, 
of the Massachusetts' regiment of volunteers, came in a carriage in front of 
the democratic headquarters — Mr. Apple's hotel- and was warmly greeted 
by those who so long and so well knew him. Soon after his arrival, Robt. 
Tyler, esq., came in, who was greeted with loud cheeiing. After him the 
township delegation from the lower part of the county, and the democratic 
'representatives from Trenton, came up the street, headed by an excellent 
band from Trenton. It did our heart good, to see the people — the sturdy 
farmers, with their sunburnt faces and warm hearts— come thronging in, 
with their horses gayly caparisoned with small flags bearing the names of 
Cass and Butler, or enveloped in the green livery of the forest. Two, four, 
and six horse teams came in, with large platforms erected upon them, and 
some with poles topped with flags, and filled with men --young and old, 
with brown faces, hard hands, and true hearts. Buckingham township, 
with her hosts of sous, with banners such as these, came up--'Onr country 
right or wrong!' A targe and beautiful banner, bound about with ever- 
green, with this inscription, 'Cass, Butler, and no bank,' showed that its 
bearers were of the right stripe. The American flags were 'scattered pro- 
fusely throughout the long line, which seemed endless. New Hope followed 
with flags and banners: 'Democratic principles, and not men' — 'The tariff 
of 1846,' &c; while Solesbury, Warwick, Newtown, Bristol, and many 
other delegations, brought up the rear with other patriotic devices, which 
we cannot take time nor space to mention in particular. In Let, every mo- 
ment brought new arrivals to swell the already large crowd. At 10 o'clock 
the discharge of artillery told that the military heroes were approaching. 
The carriage containing General Patterson, Colonels Wynkoopand Black, 
diove up into the crowd, and nine loud and hearty cheers rent the air. The 
greeting that was given by the Democracy to these heroes was truly grati- 
fying. Coh Wynkoop in particular seemed to be at home among the people 
of his native county, while G.meryJ Patterson was besieged on every side 
with warm grasps of the hand by the assembled thousands. The Philadel- 
phia delegation, in a large six-horse omnibus, with horses decked with 
plumes, and their vehicle faced on either side by likenesses of Gen Cass, 
drove up to the headquarters. Three hearty cheers saluted them as they 
left their omnibus, while the clear notes of their bugle sounded above the 
voices of the crowd, ' , 



At 12 o'clock the meeting was organized — Andrew Apple, of Springfield, 
in the chair. Various capital speeches were delivered, both before and after 
dinner. But our limits necessarily confine us to the following: 

Capt. W. W. H. Davis, (son of Gen. Davis.) The applause when he took the 
stand was very great. He was glad to see so many true-hearted Democrats before 
him, who had thrown away their toils and caies, and given one day to their coun- 
try. The war with Mexico was closed, but there was another battle to be fought 
and won, and the sturdy democracy before him were to be some of the soldiers. 
The Whig party are now no longer the friends of the country — they are now its 
enemies. Ever since the army had first landed upon Mexican soil, until they h?d 
gloriously entered the halls of the Montezumas, the Whigs had made a studied 
objection to the soldier. The speeches of Whig members of Congress were print- 
ed and circulated throughout Mexico, and through the country immense numbers 
of the speeches of Messrs. Clay, Corwin, Botts, and Giddings, could be found. 
He held in his hand the proceedings of the Mexican Philanthropic Society, in 
which resolutions of thanks were given to these Whig leaders. The course of 
the Whiff patty kept the army in Mexico one year longer than they otherwise 
would. Had it not been for a strong Mexican army at home, opposed to furnish- 
ing supplies, the war would have been ended in six months alter its commence- 
ment. He then referred to the course of the Democratic party, which had always 
been for the country ; and he pointed to General Cass as the warmest supporter 
of the -rights of the volunteer. Generals Cass and Butler %vere eminently calcu. 
lated for the high offices for which they were nominated. Their noble deeds were 
household words in the mouth of every man in the Union. He knew (he said} 
General Taylor — he had sat with him under his tent : he was a good soldier: but, 
to «ive you the word he gave me from his own lips, he is S( not fitted for the office 
of President of the United States.'' He then spoke of General Patterson, who 
sat by his aide. I have followed that gallant Genetal through the iron hail of 
many a hard fought field — under the walls of Vera Cruz, and upon the bloody 
heights of Cerro Gordo, lie said, the Colonels of the gallant first regiment weie 
yet to speak, and he would give way to them. 

The gallant and fine-looking Colonel Francis M. Wynkoop was intro- 
duced, amidst the enthusiasm of tho people, among: whom ho had drawn 
his first breath. It seemed as if the hurrahs would never come to an end. 
It was an interesting scene to behold — a democratic meeting welcoming in- 
to the arms of the party a son, who had wandered from the faith, but who 
was now returning with joy to those who most loved him. He proceeded, 
after the applause had subsided, to administer such a dose to the whigs, that 
they will scarcely recover irom its effects until after the 7th of Novem- 
ber next, and most likely not at all. We do not pretend, in the following 
report of his remark?, to do him full justice ; but as nearly as we could, we 
took down his language and ins ideas in his own words. The anxiety to 
hear him was so great, that the crowd pressed between him and our table, 
and prevented us from catching all that lie said. He spoke substantially 
as follows : . 

Old Friends and Playmates : Associates of my youth ! companions of my 
boyhood's sports ! I was born among you— drew my first breath in your midst — 
fished in your streams — and gunned in your woods! I have been absent for a 
long time. I have been far separated from you, but my native home has ever 
been warm in my recollection — never forgotten *! As the infant pines for its absent 



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mother, so have I longed to see your faces once again ! I behold before me now 
the goiid yeomanry of my natal county, upon wh-<se hearts the finger of God has 
written that honesty of purpose which h is al»,3\$ rharao'qrized you. Your 
Country's* honor, her dignity, and her welfare, re a ' k- n tin- coming contest. 
I was a Whig. I rauy from a long race > f Win . h re is scarcely a Demo- 

crat in rn\ hmg line ot connexion*. At mi ro • i y s call I mar lied as a private 
goldier «o sustain her honor. 1 went out a Wh g, iviih m\ musket on m)' shoul- 
der and my knapsack o my back. I thought my ouniry wanted me. 1 co ne 
b^c- to vmi, fel|ow-citiZ''its i a Democrat! [Cheers.] A full-blooded Democrat! 
j .) ] And a- the his>s in -tension say, a red-mouthed, venomous Demo- 
<-.-a ! [(ireat applause.] And 1 thank the Mexican war for my conversion, i 
| m ih r" the difference of heart, the difference of Jeeling — of soul that ex- 
he men the two parties. I learned there-a !e?son that cannot be rejected, 
moment of peril and danger, while in the arduous service of my country, 
tuv n. Hid »vandered back to iey far-distant native land, and mingled with the 
cHfternig ^collections of a Whig, f held on to the faith. But 1 learned that 
while the army of the republic was engaged in its defence, my own Whig party, 
influenced by expediency, had engaged tti encouraging those who tvere destroy- 
ing the army which had been sent abroad to represent them in the field of battle. 
I saw a party in the United States busily engaged in condemning the war. when 
I knew and felt it to be just. I knew that blood— good, true, red, American 
blood—had been shed upon American soil ; and it was that feeling that induced 
me to take up my musket. I have never doubted the justness of this war. [Cheers.] 
And yielding to the influence and force of motive, I could not resist;' I gave in 
my adhesion fo the Democratic party, with my heart and soul. [Cheers.J I can 
• trace back to tho Whig parly most'of the carnage that reddened the plains of 
Mexico! 1 can point to them as the cause of the guerilla system, with all its 
enormity and blood thirstiness. I heard the arguments of the Whig orators ad- 
dressed to the populace, and I knew their influence in inciting the Mexicans t<> 
a-n Obstinate and desperate resistance. I knew, too, their influence upon my poor 
men, some of whose bones are now bleaching upon the plains of Mexico I point 
to the Mexican party in the United State«, with Henry Clay at their head, as the 
cause of all this evil. Taking the hint from him and his party, Salas, the origin- 
ator of the guerilla system, urged that they should hunt them down, worry them 
out, and prolong the war. "You can't overcome them, 1 ' he said, "when jou 
meet them face to face, and thousand to thousand." "The Democratic party,'' 
he said, '• would insist upon a prosecution of the war, and would have an indem- 
nity ; but if the Whig party comes into power, we will have a peace without any 
sacrifice of territory." How this plan of Salas, suggested by the Whig party in 
the United States, succeeded, let the bones of the Americans now in Mexico 
testily; let the gallant spirits who were maimed, and are now lying in the hospi- 
tals, speak out; and Ivt the dead officers who fell along the national road utter 
their voices. And these men were there struggling for their country's honor — not 
for one State, but the whole Union. And what was their position ? Surrounded 
by an enemy numerous enough to crush them and eat them, they found a party at 
home, where they should look for succor, moulding the ball, preparing the powder, 
and sharpening the knife to assassinate them. What was the reward for which 
they looked ? The approval of their countrymen — nothing else. They earnestly 
gazed three thousand miles back to their native land for that approval. Where 
they should have found assistance, and indeed approbation, they found nothing 
jrom the Whig party but hostility. They turned back to the work with broken 
hearts; they felt that there were black-hearted, smooth-skinned politicians at 



ho me encouraging the Mexican bloodhounds to seek after their blood. But the 
crowning act of all — and that which drove out of my heart the last vestige of 
Whig affection— -was Henry Clay's speech and resolutions at Lexington. I tell 
your— and I speak it in honesty — that tears rolled down my cheeks when 1 read 
them ; and that, too, published in good Spanish. I found them circulating in 
<vcry street a nd corner of l J uebla. Where, then, were my Whig principles ? In 
the dust, and, so help me God : I hope forever. [Great cheering.] Another cir- 
cumstance I. must allude to. A {ew weeks after, I received the Monitor America' 
no; it contained the proceedings of the Philanthropic Society, composed of men 
high in Mexico, in which were resolutions complimentary of Messrs. Clay, Cor- 
win, Giddings, Botts, &c, and announcing that "these illustrious friends of hu- 
manity have been elected honorary members of the Philanthropic Society." And, 
fellow-citizens, let them remnin there forever. [Cheers.] 

Now, 1 am not here for the purpose of malting a political speech. I have been 
spending my time in the camp, attending to the duties of the soldier. I cannot 
take time to discuss the principles which were in vogue when I left, and which 
the change in our circumstances may require to be altered now. I would like to 
be able to discuss these questions as eloquently as those who have preceded me. 
1 have been used to look upon the two parties as being divided by the simple line 
of for, or against, the war ; or, as I interpret it, for or against the country. [Cheers.j 
But I talk to you from the honest influence of an old Bucks county heart, and 
would like to be able to take late authority upon the subjects that now agitate t,he 
public mind. I know one of the candidates of the Democratic party well. I know 
the other as well as I can from history. Gen. Cass's biography is the history of 
the country. His services in the field are brilliant and eminent. His life has been 
that of a good, sound ■patriot. A3 a statesman, you all know him. There can be 
no doubt as to his honesty and his qualifications. General Butler I am intimately 
acquainted with. He was rny major general. I know him to be an honorable, 
gallant, worthy, and accomplished American citizen. 

1 have little to say about the Whig candidates. Gen. Taylor I know partially, 
and cheerfully add my testimony relative to his high abilities as a general. But I 
have always looked, as a Whig, upon Henry Clay as the high priest of Whig 
principles. Had I never gone into this campaign, and not met with proof that the 
Whigs were against the war, and not read the Lexington speech, I would still be 
a Whig. And now, the very party which, for expediency sake, condemned the 
war, and advised the Mexicans to welcome the army with "bloody hands" and 
" hospitable graves,' 5 have taken up Gen. Taylor as their candidate for the presi- 
dency, whose glory was acquired (according to them) in an unholy, tyrannical, 
iniquitous, and unjust war. Gen. Taylor has received his reward ; and we might 
as well expect a blacksmith to make a good watch, as he make a good President. 

I had a desire that the first Democratic speech that I ever made should be de- 
livered in the old county of my birth ; and my desire is now gratified. 1 am sur- 
rounded by eloquent gentlemen, accustomed to speaking, and knowing better the 
various questions that should be discussed than I do. And now I will yield the 
stand to them. 

Gen. Robert Patterson also addressed the meeting. He said that he was 
afraid he would not please them, lie was a working man, and not a speaker; 
and had come to meet his fellow Democrats, but did not expect to see them out- 
pouring in such large numbers. For this glorious reception he returned his sin- 
• • cere thanks. He had been a fafmer-boy \ he' had ploughed, sowed; and*mowed, 
and was therefore happy to meet his brother farmers once more. He glanced 
rapidly at the objections to General Taylor's election, reviewing in quick .sue- 



cession Ms equivocal position upon aH the great subjects that occupy the attention 
of the American people in the coming canvass. Contrasted with this, he exhib- 
ited the »id features of Democratic principles and the Democratic platform. Ke 
spoke eloquently of the Pennsylvania volunteers, and their glorious reception in 
their native State; and he alluded in indignant terms to the manner in which 
Whig Massachusetts has permitted her own volunteers to suffer. He alluded to 
the influence which the Mexican war would have upon the position of the United 
States before the European world. Now there would be little or no danger of the 
despotisms of Europe endeavoring to overcome us. If they should be so foolish 
as to make the attempt, all that he would ask of the government would be that a 
call should be made for fifty thousand Pennsylvania Blue Jackets, and they would 
soon settle '.ho business. 

CAPTAIN LOESER'S SPEECH AT BERKS COUNTY. 

The Democrats of this sterling county met at Reading on the Sth inst. Every 
portion of the county was well represented, and the proceedings were character- 
ized by great harmony. Excellent speeches were also made by J. Glancy Jones, 
Charles Davis, H. A. Muhlenberg, Esqs., and by Col. J. B. Myers. Among the 
pleasing incidents of the meeting, says the Gazette, was the speech of the gallant 
volunteer, Captain Loeser, who left old Berks H a Whig," but has returned from 
Mexico a— but we let him tell his own story : 

" Fellow citizens. I never regretted more than at this moment, that I ara no speech- maker; 
for 1 assure you that I felt less nervous when under the wails of Chapultepec, than I do now. 
If there is any glory for rse to v/in, it must be upon the field of battle, and not within the wails 
of a Court House. I. was brought here to define my position, and shall attempt to do it. Some 
say I am a Whig — others a Democrat. / say I am a Democrat. In 1845, thi> people of Berks 
county elected me their Brigade Inspector by a handsome majority. I then said that I had polled 
aiy last Whig vote, and say so now; but for other :ind more weighty reasons. The Whigs in 
Congress, I y refusing us supplies, forced us to forage upon the enemy, or »-at mouldy bread, and 
such food as ycu would not give to dogs. And more than this, by their violent opposition to 
the war, they did more than a ly thing else to prolong it, and kept us in Mexico six or eight 
months longer thaw we otherwise would have remained there. 1 have seen — 1 care not what 
others may say — I have s en the speeches of Webster, Corwin, and Ciay, posted up at the cor- 
ners in the city of Mexico, in Spanish and English, and know the effect they had upon the 
Mexicans. How could I, a soldier, longer support the anti war party ? l I repeat, I am a Demo- 
crat, and a full-blooded one ; and I thank Mexico tor my conversion." 

Captain Loeser sat down amid rounds of applause, and three loud cheers were 
given spontaneously for him. 

«A LITTLE MORE GRAPE, CAPTAIN BRAGG" 

"Major Braxton Bragg, who contributed so esgentia'ly to the overthrow of the Mexicans at 
Buena Vista, has also contributed to the discomfiture of Taylor whiggery, in North Caiolina. 
Jn Northampton county, where the Democrats gain two members of the Legislature and largely 
on the Governor vote, Major Bragg, and his brother Thomas Bragg, jr., were engaged in the 
canvass." 

Some persons might have the presumption to think, that, in consequence of 
Captain. Bragg fighting under Taylor that he would, as a ma'ter of courtesy, vote 
for him. Had Captain Bragg considered Gen. Taylor well qualified for this high 
station, and his being also a Democrat, no doubt the respect or courtesy might 
have justified the Captain in doing so: but his present independent course goes 
io show that of the General's unfitness, as also not being of the right political 
stuff; and, as the Whigs say of him in these diggins, ?that he is a neutral sub- 
stance.'* As for our own opinion, we should say that when a man contains but 
little substance, it is best to show neatral. 



From the Union, 
AN INCIDENT. 

" Straws show which way the wind blows," 

An incident occurred a few days ago at Beltsville, about fourteen miles from 
Washington, affording some indication of the course which will be pursusd by 
the great mass of our returned volunteers, who, having escaped the " hospitable 
graves" invoked for them by Thomas Corwin and other leaders in the present 
Taylor alias whig .party, are, or soon will be, in our midst to* deal out political 
death through the ballot-bos to the allies of those whom they have vanquished 
with the cartridge-box. 

The Baltimore train of cars had stopped, containing 125 volunteers, returning 
from Mexico. They belonged to this city and the neighboring counties of Ma- 
ryland. It wa3 proposed by some one to give three cheers for Taylor. It was 
answered by the mover and but one solitary soldier. Three cheers were then 
proposed for our glorious ticket, Cass and Butler ; and they were given in 
thunder-tones, such as have never waked up the echoss from the hills of old Ma- 
ryland— 124 volunteers, and most of the passengers in the cars joining in thesout- 
stirring shout, "Hurrah for Cass and Butler." 

BUENA VISTA. 



The Volunteers— for Cass, 

One of the most gratifying' features of the Presidential canvass, is the 
fact, that a large majority ol the gallant men, who have fought their coun- 
try's battles in Mexico, since their return from the fields of peril, are active- 
ly engaged in promoting the election of Cass and Butler. This is a sore 
disappointment to the Federal Whigs, who were confident that th« volun- 
teers, from sympathy towards Gen. Taylor, would msh en masse to his sup- 
port. That these brave men are not led, by a false enthusiasm, into the 
embraces of Federalism, results from no want of attachment to Gen. Tay- 
lor as a military commander, but it is owing exclusively to the unfortunate 
position in which he is placed by lending his name totheopposersof the war, 
in which he has wotrall his laurels. Much as the volunteers may admire 
Gen. Taylor's skill and courage as a military captain, they admire candor 
and consistency still more, and a great majority of them revolt from any 
association with the party, whose leaders were for welcoming them with 
"bloody hands to hospitable graves." 

It is this feeling, and none other, that prompts the eloquent and chivalric 
Col. Black to declare his preference for Gen Cass: from the highest house- 
tops. 1c is this that has wrought such a radical change in the brave Col. 
Wynkoop, who started for Mexico a zealous "Native American," and has 
returned a Democrat. These same considerations have converted the gal- 
lant Capt. Naylor — the representative of the Federal party in Congress, 
but now a decided Democrat. It is this, too,. that has wrought the change 
mentioned m the following article which we copy from the Huntingdon 
Globe : 

"No Go.— At the Federal County Meeting at Hollidaysburg, on Tuesday even- 
ing last, Captain Loeser, of the Reading Artillerists, who was on his return frocs 




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Mexico, and who happenftd to be present, was called on to make a speech. He 
rose and stated, that in 1840 he was a Whig and supported Harrison, and in' 1844 
he was a Whig and exerted all his influence for Henry Clay ; " but," said the 
gallant captain, "'• 1 am a Whig no longer." Of course the Feds let the brave cap- 
tain off without any further desire to hear him." 

The following extract from the Ohio Statesman proves that the same 
sentiment prevails among the volunteer Buckeyes : 

"Capt. Jame» Irvine. — On Saturday last we had the pleasure of meeting Cap- 
tain James Irvine, of the Millersburgh company, on his return from Mexico. He 
returns in good health and spirits. 

"At the call of his country, though a Whig, he volunteered in defence of its 
rights. Like hundreds of others from our State, who left as Whigs, he returns a 
Democrat, and will do battle as heartily for Cass, Butler, Weller and Democracy, 
in Ohio, as he battled for his country and her rights on the tented fields of Mexico." 

Tint the feeling in favor of Gen. Cass among the volunteers is not, as 
the Federal editors would fain persuade us, confined to the officers, but ex- 
tends in the same cheering degree to the privates, is manifest from indica- 
tions the most unmistakable. This is- emphatically the case with the 
Pennsylvania regiments, who are almost to a man for Cass and Butler ; and 
the following affords a gratifying view of the political complexion of the 
New York regiment, as canvassed by one of the officers : 



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We believe this presents a fair sample of the opinions of nearly all the 
regiments that have served in Mexico. They are five to one for Cass and 
Butler, spurning all political association with the enemies of the war and 
of the just rights of the country. 

St^ Our Club consists mainly of mechanics and workingmen, consequently 
its means are limited : but if our Democratic Friends, at a distance, find this is 
calculated to produce the desired effect and a demand for more numbers than 
we can provide means to have printed for distribution, be made, they can be 
furnished to order at 50 cents per hundred, the price of printing. The Club 
will cheerfully perform the labor 3 requisite for distribution. 

C. P. SENGSTACK, 
Cfu fix. Com* Cass <$f Butler Club. 



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